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Vital Statistics
Time Zone: GMT-2 Dialling code: +224
Currency: 1 Guinean franc = 100 centimes (for current value click here
Areal extent: 245,860 sq.km.
Population (2002 est.): 7,775,065**
Population density: 31.2 per sq. km.
Urban population (1980/1997): 31/37*
Population growth (1990-1997): 1.7% p.a.*
Life expectancy males/females (1996): 46/47*
Age structure: 0-14 years: 42.8% (male 1,660,795; female 1,669,850)
15-64 years: 54.5%
(male 2,067,991; female 2,165,625)
65 years and over: 2.7% (male 86,968; female 123,836) (2002 est.)
Fertility rate (1975/1995): 7.0/6.6*
Capital: Conakry
Largest city/population (1990): Conakry/1.127 millions#
GNP per capita 1997): $570 (WB*)
Chief of state: President Lansana Conté (head of military government since 5 April 1984, elected president 19 December 1993)
Head of government: Prime Minister Lamine Sidime (since 8 March 1999).
Cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president
Elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; candidate must receive a majority of the votes cast to be elected president; election last held 14 December 1998 (next to be held NA December 2003); the prime minister is appointed by the President
Election results: Lansana Conté reelected president; percent of vote - Lansana Conté (PUP) 56.1%, Mamadou Boye BA (UNR-PRP) 24.6%, Alpha CONDE (RPG) 16.6%**
* = World Bank 1999
** CIA
~ = Instituto del Tercer Mundo 1997
# = Encyclopaedia Britannica
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